 Target shares surging after reporting better than expected earnings on set with me now is Christine short senior vice president at Estimized so Christine earnings and revenues beat expectations same-store sales fell 1.3 percent But analysts were expecting a 3.7 percent decline so all around a good quarter Yeah, I think this might be the biggest surprise this entire earnings season You know we came into the retail season Mostly with bad results the only company I can actually think of off the top of my head That's beat both on the top in the bottom line is Home Depot and that's kind of the golden child of the retail space We know home improvements doing really well as the housing market recovers and as you know home prices stay very high So it's surprising to see Target of all names. I mean discount's been doing pretty well, but I'm talking more about the TJ Maxx's of the world treasure Right exactly where people really feel like they're getting a value and that's what the US consumers looking for right now But Target was not on the list of names to post a 30 cent beat versus what we were expecting at Estimized Revenues beat by almost 400 million. So those are huge numbers. I wonder if that's any sort of foreshadowing for Walmart tomorrow But certainly a surprise here and in online sales. So digital channel sales surging 22 percent year every year So those investments into their digital sales certainly seem to be paying off We're going to talk about Walmart in a minute But what is the overall strategy for Target because they seem to be a little bit of a fish out of water in terms of Beefing up their digital sales and also competing in the I guess home improvement space Yeah, I mean that's a great space for them to compete We know in the last few quarters their strength has been on health and wellness Some of the designer, you know clothing sales that they've matched up with designers have done quite well You know, they've sort of tried to compete in grocery. I'm not sure they're going to be able to compete there I think their best strategy right now is the stop smaller format store that they've been able target express Has been able to go into smaller towns be kind of a one-stop shop for people, you know outside of bigger cities So it seems that that is working, but we'll have to listen on the call I know target restock is something that they're piloting right now Online shopping for household essentials that are delivered the next day So that could fly in the face of both a jet and an Amazon strategy Yeah, and maybe some analysts wouldn't even call Walmart a competitor to target right because Walmart is very strong in groceries We know they bought jet.com last year. So that's gonna bolster their online offerings What should we expect from Walmart on Thursday? So tomorrow from all on we're looking for about 97 cents a share We're looking for a hundred and seventeen point eight billion I think on revenues and so both of those would be you know down on on the bottom line We're actually looking for the eighth consecutive quarter of negative growth and revenues have just kind of been bumping along I think for the last three years They've only put up one to two percent growth, but again, this is a huge behemoth So you're not gonna see 20% growth out of this name So sales are kind of bumping along the lower single digits But again, you're gonna expect to hear more about jet more about their grocery efforts more about online sales Because they've certainly invested there and I think if anyone can take on Amazon any of the big box stores It's gonna be Walmart. They have the capital to do so and we'll end with that very important point All right, Christine short. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right I'm Scott Gam and you're watching the street